Reynoldston is a former settlement in Upstate New York or sometimes referred to as Northern New York, United States. Located in the township of Brandon in Franklin County, Reynoldston sits along the Deer River at above sea level, or about above the St. Lawrence River Valley. It is in the northern foothills of the Adirondacks. At its peak, circa 1920, Reynoldston had fewer than 350 inhabitants. Early settlers After the Civil War, men and women looking for land moved along the Eddy Road to what would become Reynoldston. Families such as Allen Bordeaux, Joseph Campbell, who served in the Civil War, and Nelson Trushaw. They cleared their lands, and earned hard cash by selling potash or "blacksalts" that they made as they burned the hardwood trees to build their farms. The first farms grew hops, raised sheep both for the wool and food and some had a few cows and oxen to plow their land. It was, at best, a type of subsistence farming. The land was too rocky, the summers were too short and the winters were too cold to sustain extensive agriculture which existed only a few miles away in the St. Lawrence Valley. Reynolds Bros. Mill and Logging What Reynoldston did have was extensive mixed forests with both hardwood and softwood, the Deer River for water power to drive saws in a lumber mill and excellent conditions for logging in the winter. Orson and Phoebe Reynolds bought extensive land holdings and established the "Reynolds Mill" in the later 1870s. Initially the mill located on the banks of the Deer River(a tributary of Black River), logged the immediate area and processed the wood in their mill. The bounty of the hardwoods and of cedar for shakes kept the mill going. When Orson Reynolds died in 1887, his four sons took over the mill and soon expanded it under the new name Reynolds Brothers Mill and Logging. Forest history and the conservation movement Reynoldston is an example in the forest history of the Adirondack Mountains and the rush to cut and process the forest wealth of this forestry rich region in the late 1800s, when logging was accelerating in the Adirondacks, At the same time there was an increasing public awareness of forest conservation in New York State. Cornell University attempted to establish a school of forestry, and pamphlets on reforestation first began to be distributed. Also in 1892